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Beware a More Muscular Japan
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Asserts that the US should be wary that Japanese aid and troops for Iraq have strings attached. From the Christian Science Monitor.
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Japan Focus
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Offers Japanese and international perspectives on contemporary Japanese politics, international relations, economics, social movements, war and terror, and historical memory.
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Japan Politics Links
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Links collection on Japanese government, politics, and political history.
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The Economist - Insecure
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Article documenting that now along with their jobs and pensions, Japanese now fear for their safety.
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The Japan Information Access Project
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Conducts scholarly research and analysis on critical Asia policy issues to strengthen international understanding of Japanese and northeast Asian science, technology, economic and security policy.
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The Occupation of Japan as an Exercise in "Regime Change": Reflections After Fifty Years by a Participant
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Compares and contrasts the US occupation of Japan after WWII with post-Hussein Iraq.
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Tokyo Progressive
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Contains politically oriented news, articles, and links related to grass roots campaigning to improve society, culture, government, and the environment.
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Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Policy Change in Japan
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Examines a hypothetical model of policy-making by focusing on the relationship between the transition of political power between government agencies and the subsequent policy changes in the process of administrative reform in the 1990s.
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Children's Rights Council of Japan
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Organization fighting international abduction and working to assure children in Japan of meaningful and continuing contact with both their parents and extended family regardless of the parents' marital status.
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Citizen's Nuclear Information Center (CNIC)
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Provide information and public education on nuclear power and nuclear issues in Japan.
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Consequences - A Change in Security Posture: Japan and North Korea
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Discusses Japan's recent proactive stance in foreign policy making.
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Economist - What Ails Japan?
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Author argues that after 12 years of failure in attempted economic reforms, fixing Japan's political system is nearly impossible.
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Exceptionalism in Political Science: Japanese Politics, US Politics, and Supposed International Norms
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A paper intended to demonstrate some problems inherent in the arguments surrounding exceptionalism in Japan and the United States.
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Hollywood's Land of the Rising Cliché
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Examines Japan as portrayed in western movies, and how the perceptions have changed with the export of Japanese popular culture. [Free registration required.]
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Insular Japan Needs, but Resists, Immigration
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A New York Times article on Japan's emerging crisis of depopulation and cultural resistance to the only solution that can save it. [Free registration required].
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Japan as the New South Korea
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Essay from the Institute for Corean-American Studies on Japan filling the role of South Korea for influence on China.
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Machiavellian Politics and Japanese Ideals: The Enigma of Japanese Power Eight Years Later
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Examines Karel van Wolferen's seminal work critical of the Japanese Establishment eight years after its publication, and examines if some camparisons hold up.
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Political Corruption in the Ranks
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Artictle on how and why do political corruption and scandals keep popping up in Japan with alarming frequency.
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Sorry Is the Hardest Word
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Asserts that old style politics is why Japanese leaders fail to address Japan's wartime brutalities.
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Their Home Isn't North Korea (THINK)
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A non-profit organization based in Tokyo with information and resources on the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea.
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Washington Post.: No Relief on Japan's Isle of Pain
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Article describing troubles on Hokkaido when economic realities force off the flow of pork barrel spending.
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